Early Abandonment

This Jungian Life Podcast · Jul 11, 2019 · 1h 8m

DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Experiences of physical abandonment are depicted in stories old and new as ways of out-picturing traumas of early relational abandonment. Jung articulated the archetypal foundation of what later psychologists came to call attachment theory. In an infant’s primal state of identification with a mothering other, lack of caregiver availability and attunement constitutes psychic abandonment. This is depicted in fairy tales like Hansel and Gretel and the more recent film, Pan’s Labyrinth. Both image of the inner world of the emotionally…